[DGD] string indexing..

[Bart van Leeuwen]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Noah Gibbs wrote:

>   Actually, this is a known thing.  It's the way it is
> on purpose.  You're welcome to argue the point, but
> this has been discussed pretty extensively in the
> mailing list archives.

No need to argue it if that has been done before, its not the behavior I
desire, but well, its not that hard to change that for my own projects.

What I find odd however is that the actual check is in 3 different
places.. sometimes it comes down to str_range (calls from optimize.c where
only lower/opper boundaries are checked), usually str_ckrange is called
tho (which contains the same check as str_range does. guess there is a
reason to do the check beforehand, but it is rather unobvious to me :)

>
> --- Bart van Leeuwen <bart at wotf.org> wrote:
> > Hmm.. it seems to me that doing something like
> > "blah"[0..-1] should result
> > in an invalid string range error, but it does not,
> > it results in an empty
> > string (checked on dgd 1.1, 1.2p3).
>
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